Dates
- Cover date
- Spring 1940
- On sale
- February 15, 1940
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Superman versus Luthor · 13 pages
When Clark Kent begins to investigate a new weapon being tested by the Army that artifically causes earthquakes, little does he know that Lex Luthor is hot on the trail of securing the plans for that invention, one way or the other.
- Attaining Super-Strength · 1 pages
Author relates how a good breakfast and regular exercise can lead to better strength.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Shorty is standing outside an artist's studio and sticks his head in the window to watch him paint. When the artist leaves, Shorty goes in and eyes the picture: of a steaming turkey! When the artist returns, the turkey is missing from the picture and Shorty is licking his chops.
- Luthor's Undersea City · 13 pages
Superman faces off once again with the evil Luthor, who first has tapped oil from oil wells all over the world for his purposes, then inundating the western coast of the U.S. when he raises a glass-enclosed city of ancient weird design from the murky depths.
- Changer of Destiny · 1.9 pages
George Rankin had invented a serum that speeded up his time rate, living 31,536,000 times faster than the rest of the world. What to everyone was a mere second was actually a year to him! But the effects of the formula would only last one year, and Rankin had something important to accomplish before that year was up.
- The Economic Enemy · 13 pages
The suicide of the author of a manuscript, which states that sinister forces seek to retard this nation's return to prosperity, prods Superman to dart from place to place, averting the disasters that have been planned by these forces to disrupt vital aspects of national industries.
- Pioneer Into the Unknown · 1 pages
Actor James Rolland, upon leaving Mammoth Studios, is approached by an inventor, who tells him that he owes everything to the actor for his invention of a giant crystal-like globe he calls the space-folder! He furthers states that Rolland will be the first person to use that invention to travel to a distant spot in the universe. Rolland steps into the globe and disappears, but, unfortunately, re-appears in the center of the sun...and perishes! As a footnote, in the future of 1982, in the Museum of Interstellar History, Rolland is honored for paving the way for interplanetary space travel.
- Terror in the Trucker's Union · 13 pages
Superman pretends to join a group of racketeers who want to control the city's truck drivers' union so that they can paralyze food distribution and demand blackmail.
Characters
Reprinted in
The Superman Archives (1989), Superman: The Golden Age (2016), DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero (2024), The Superman Chronicles (2006), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013), Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (1971), The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (1987), The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (1987), Lex Luthor: A Celebration of 75 Years (2015)